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• December 20, 2024

  Texas AG Blocks Roberson Legislative Testimony

  Texas state representatives on Friday slammed Attorney General Ken Paxton's last-minute effort to block testimony from a man on death row after his 2-year-old daughter died from what was diagnosed as shaken baby syndrome.

• December 20, 2024

  Justice Reformers Wary Of Trump's Return, Yet Hope Persists

  While President-elect Donald Trump's impending return to the White House has many criminal justice reformers preparing for battle, given his scorched-earth rhetoric on crime and immigration on the campaign trail, hope for meaningful change persists in varying degrees among advocates after Trump's backing of reform legislation during his first term.

• December 20, 2024

  How Akin Helped Holocaust Survivors Win Reparations

  The Anti-Defamation League recently honored a Holocaust survivor who went on to become the face of a movement seeking accountability from the French national railroad company SNCF for its role in taking tens of thousands of Jews to Nazi concentration camps. The movement was assisted pro bono by attorneys from Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP.

• December 20, 2024

  Lambda Legal Adds Attorney In NY Focused On Trans Rights

  LGBTQ+ advocacy group Lambda Legal has hired a new senior attorney focused on the organization's work defending the transgender community.

• December 20, 2024

  Why The Public Distrusts The Legal System, And How To Fix It

  Recent data shows that the public's attitudes toward the justice system and institutions in general are declining, but several reforms and practices could help restore public confidence, say Richard Gabriel and Michelle Rey LaRocca at the Trust in Justice Project.

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